Natch - signed up.. me and a couple of friends have an idea for a mod for UT2004 that is named very similar to Mobile Forces.. in fact, i made mention of MF when we first discussed the name.. the name we are considering is Mobile Fortress.. or Mobile Ultra Fortress.. MuF for short.. :D

Andrew - thanks for the answers.. imo, i think comments and ratings would be a good idea.. i guess it depends on the level you are willing to go coding wise as to what you personally would rather incorporate. but i myself would like to see both brought into the hack.. and yeah, i know about a couple other ways to do the upload bit.. but i am looking for something that completely incorporates with vB3.. i know i can use a php based upload util and just do an include in a non vB page.. but it would be ultra smooth to have it pre-made, so to speak, within a hack..

i am very interested in this hack and the development of it because i am in need of a very good script like this.. the way Natch incorporated it is very good.. although instead of a drop down, i think i just may link to a catagories page that will then break everything down from there..

nice site btw, Natch.. and as i said, gonna, maybe, half-ass, steal the name.. even though it ain't outright theivery.. :D

also, Andrew, if there is anything i can do to help you oput with all of this, let me know.. don't mind testing, commenting, critiqueing.. whatever kind of help you need.. as i said, very interested in its development..

and thanks again for the info folks..

For those that use this with vBIndex, I have made a Customblock for "Hottest Links" ie those links with the highest hit count.

Most important upgrade I think this needs is for the linkhits counts to be stored as MEDIUMINT( 8 ), not TEXT ...

[sql]
ALTER TABLE `local_linkslink` CHANGE `linkhits` `linkhits` MEDIUMINT( 8 ) UNSIGNED DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL;
[/sql]

Check it out - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=61311

[QUOTE=AndrewD]Release 0.3, February 2004 (0.2 also still available as an attachment)

version 0.3 released. deals also with Natch's table change

bout to upgrade from 0.2 to 0.3 now.. so all i should need to do is add the xml file thru the admincp, upload the install and local_links.php files, run the install file, and everything should be back to good?

reckon i will find out shortly..

Nice work on the re-release Andrew :)

I ran the upgrade, and found that all the settings have been set to -1, which causes the permissions functions not to work ...

Which settings? Do you mean the forum permissions? There is a new entry in the admin table, default_forumid, which you must initialise to the id of the forum which carries the standard viewing permissions to be applied to new links. There is also the setting can_set_permissions, which defines the user groups that can override this setting.

I'm not happy with the way I've written this part of the code - using forum permissions seems the right way to handle things, but I suspect that the default situation should be to give automatic access to all links. What do you think?

When I say all the settings have been set to -1...

By default, after this upgrade, the new setting (default_forumid) is set to -1 - well after running the local_links_install.php, the rest of the entries in the admin table also had the value -1, causing a major failure of the Admin script - so much so that the admin page now looks like this - (screenshot attached) ...

Any suggestions ?

No idea - this has not happened to me and I ran several test installations and upgrades on different sites before releasing the code.

Please send me a backup of the database table local_linksadmin so that I can see what is happening.

Email on it's way...